Dragging from explorer to cygwin terminal is not putting the path into the terminal

Academy OfFetishes academyoffetishes@gmail.com
Thu Jun 6 16:08:00 GMT 2019


I don't think it's started in administrator mode.  At least, it doesn't ask
me to run in administrator mode when I start my terminal.

On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 8:52 AM Chris Wagner <wagnerc@plebeian.com> wrote:

> It won't work if the terminal window was started in administrator mode.
> Something to do with Windows's security isolation.
>
>
>
> On 2019-06-06 12:26 am, Academy OfFetishes wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I tried to google for this but couldn't find anyone with the same
> > problem.
> > I'm using mintty 3.0.1 and cygwin 3.0.7(0.338/5/3).
> >
> > On my previous computer, if I dragged a file from my explorer to the
> > cygwin
> > terminal, the cygwin terminal used to be populated with the full path
> > to
> > that file.  Now when I do this, the cygwin terminal isn't affected.
>
>
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